From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/17/1862, p. 2, c. 3

Under Sentence of Death. – A soldier
named Patrick McGowan, formerly belonging to Company E, 59th
Virginia regiment, Captain Gustavus A. Wallace, is now confined in
Castle Thunder under sentence of death, a court-martial having
condemned him to be shot for desertion. It appears that McGowan was
not taken prisoner at Roanoke Island, and that after that event, a
majority of his comrades being necessarily compelled to take no part
in the war on account of their parole, he entered another company as
a substitute, and had been in several actions, that of the 30th of
August, at Manassas, included, when he left his comrades and came to
Richmond. Here he was apprehended, tried, and condemned.